Ofcom and this is why....
fefster
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I think that could be an Ofcom job. They broke the rules. The public voted on the basis that there would be 4 judges votes. Only having three votes, unfairly weights the vote and makes it impossible to take it to the public vote.
If it's impossible to take it to the public vote, why did everyone vote? All our money wasted and should be returned.
If it's impossible to take it to the public vote, why did everyone vote? All our money wasted and should be returned.
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I am just glad I havent voted this series and I certainly won't now, knowing that the whole thing is fixed
The phone vote was made worthless
The judges then, in a somewhat unusual manner, selected the one to leave.
No problem.
Besides there really is no point in complaining to OfCom, ITV have a cunning and complex arrangement in place by which they hide behind a whole chain of companies, Channel TV, Fremantle, SyCo etc etc, which ensures that nothing worthwhile will ever come of any complaints, that's the real scandal.
Go read the actual rules instead of inventing your own based on nothing but what you think.
Seriously how many more posts are we going to get where people make claims based on pure fantasy and think they have a case.
I and many many others have posted many times since last night explaining the real rules by which the show has to got by to remain legal and taken time to fully explain them, only to have it totally ignored with another thread of fantasy and no substance.
The point is even the bottom two had people voting for them to stay in just not enough votes. It is the the judges perogative to save 1 of the worst two vote counts. If they cant unanimously decide the deadlock automatically eliminates the worst vote count.
Chances are Treyc had more votes to stay in so by your own logic she should be in as she didnt come bottom.
if Simon wants to treat the public like fools maybe the public should do the same with him
However, all the public vote does is determine the bottom two - then the judges have the final say. It doesn't really matter how they do this, and I'm pretty sure that the producers/Simon decide each week who is going out and instruct all the judges how to vote to acheive that
So I don't think there are any grounds for complaint really - all they are guilty of is a supreme lack of subtlety!
The point of the phone vote is not to find the act with the least votes
At the end of the day, the sing-off is pure drama simply to create interest.
I can't recall anyone that has been in the bottom two ever winning the competition.
True,
Probably because people would feel the right/correct result had been arrived at!
You are correct, no-one in the bottom two has ever won the competition. Let's be honest, no-one in their right mind believes Katie will go on and win this, she has 2, maybe 3 weeks maximum left in the competition.
JLS were in the bottom two and managed the runners up spot.
And think is exactly the sort of mess we get into when we go by what people think, imagine and feel instead of rules, law and reality.
But that wouldn't change the fact that only 3 of the judges voted so these supposed rules would still of been broken. Hypocrisy all round :rolleyes:
How about you put up a set of the exact rules on here for us all to read, if they are that easy to access.
The judges decide who goes OUT.
The idea that the public vote is wasted is mad since the public vote kept in Wagner, Cher, Aiden, Mary...
If the judges chicken out (for any reason) the show CAN boot the least popular of the two from the votes cast, but that is clearly at their descretion.
Everything is above board.
public have been screwed big time over this.
Correct!
It can only be referred to again in a deadlock situation which we were not in last night. We were in a "judge deciding to abstain when asked to judge" situation and in that situation the rules are very clear: a majority vote.
Deadlock by very definition is only for when they the vote is deadlocked - Not a cover all excuse.
"the judges take it to dead lock," Oh for the love of god! :rolleyes:
The judges don't take a vote to deadlock the vote is deadlocked if there are is an equal vote. Then and only then can the rules of deadlock can be applied - Not when little Miss Stropy can't do the job she is paid for!
This really is basic stuff.